#technology

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cell-phones #heaven #heavenly #man #mobile

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#brutal #gestures #making #men #precise

But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools. We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#moral-progress #rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr #science #spiritual #technology

When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for? ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#technology #values-in-life #change

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#continue #deal #exciting #existing #great

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before. ↗

— Ron Kind

#before #few #field #integrated #last

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#artists #being #emerged #great #likewise

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#approach #around #aspect #been #behavior

We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#advanced technology #assume #build #computers #could

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ↗

— Larry Wall

#any #assembly #code #language #programmers